OAKS PARK, Calif. –Lewis & Clark College women's lacrosse did not trail for three-plus quarters, then came back twice from two goals down to tie the game in the final ten minutes before losing their third one-point contest in their inaugural season to California Lutheran University of the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) on Monday night.
 
THE BASICS
 
Cal Lutheran 16, Lewis & Clark 15
(Lewis & Clark 0-10)
(Cal Lutheran 3-6)
 
HOW IT HAPPENED
 
Kate Meinhard and Sage Swegle led the Pioneers' offensive attack with four goals and an assist each. Meinhard recorded a career-high in goals on her way to her first collegiate hat trick. The sophomore tied her career high in assists while setting new career bests, leading the team with eight draw controls and five ground balls. Swegle logged her sixth career hat trick and scored multiple goals in her seventh game this season. The freshman has had four games with at least one goal and one assist.
 
Rowan Levandoski, Finley Allen, and Lauren Elliott each scored two goals against the Regals. The three freshmen have scored multiple goals in at least four games this season.
 
Swegle scored a woman-up free position goal three and half minutes into the game to put Lewis & Clark on top 1-0. The Pioneers went up 3-0 after freshman Evelyn Burnett and Swegle found the back of the net.
 
After keeper Zoey Hamel-Hyland made her first two saves of the game in the first ten minutes, Cal Lutheran recorded their first goal at 4:42 to make it 3-1 Lewis & Clark.
 
The Pioneers regained their three-goal advantage at 3:33 when Elliott found Levandoski in a woman-up situation, and the duo made it 4-1. The Regals scored two goals in the final two minutes to pull within 4-3 at the end of the first quarter.
 
Cal Lutheran tied the game for the first time, four all, at 12:39 in the second quarter. Lewis & Clark responded as Meinhard recorded a free position goal at 11:26, then scored a woman-up goal at 7:35 on an assist from Burnett to make it 6-4.
 
The Regals scored two goals within two minutes to tie the game again at six. Allen scored her first goal of the game, putting the Pioneers up 7-6 with just over a minute to go before the break. With one second left in the first half, Cal Lutheran scored on a free position shot to tie the game. Lewis & Clark went into halftime for the first time in program history with the score tied.
The Pioneers scored four goals in the first four minutes of the second half to take an 11-7 lead. Allen recorded a woman-up free-position goal at 13:37, and Swegle found Meinhard for a goal at 12:41 to make it 9-7. Meinhard found Levandoski at 11:34 to record the team's program-record fourth assist in a game and the second of her career. Elliott concluded the 4-0 run with a woman-up free position goal at 11:01.
 
Cal Lutheran went on its own 4-0 run over the final ten minutes of the quarter, including scoring the tying goal with 20 seconds on the clock. The Regals added two more goals in the first five minutes of the final quarter to go up 13-11. They took their first lead with 13:30 left in the game.
 
Elliott ended the Regals' 6-0 scoring run and the Pioneers' 18+-minute scoring drought with a woman-up goal at 7:20, cutting the lead to one. Less than a minute later, Swegle tied the game with the team's seventh woman-up goal of the game, a free-position shot at 6:28.  
 
Cal Lutheran went up 15-13 with two goals over the next 74 seconds. Meinhard and Swegle kept Lewis & Clark in the game with goals at 4:01 and 3:09 to tie the score at 15. The Regals regained the lead at 2:27 with a free position goal, making it 16-15.
 
Meinhard and Allen made two final shot attempts to tie the game, but Cal Lutheran blocked the first and saved the second to secure the win.
 
BY THE NUMBERS 

• Hamel-Hyland faced 29 shots and recorded six saves, five in the first half.
• The Pioneers set program records for goals scored, assists in a game (four), shots (34), shots on goal (25), woman-up goals (seven) and draw controls (23).
• Elliott tied her career-high for goals in a game and recorded an assist for the second consecutive game.
• Lewis & Clark recorded more shots (34-29) and shots on goal (25-22) than Cal Lutheran.
• Freshman Gloria Meehan recorded her first career draw control in the game.
• The Pioneers won more draw controls than the Regals (23-11).
• Sophomore Delaney Jones notched her third consecutive game with a caused turnover.

WHO'S NEXT

The Pioneers finish their three-game road trip on Wednesday in Orange, California, against Chapman at 7 p.m.